Word: nantucket
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DIED. JANE ENGELHARD, 86, art lover and grande dame of New York society; in Nantucket, Mass. Along with her phenomenally wealthy husband Charles, she was active in Democratic Party politics and helped Jacqueline Kennedy restore the White House. Her collection included the original presidential proclamation of the Louisiana Purchase. A trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1974 to '81, she also donated to such institutions as the New Jersey Symphony, some years paying the salary of the orchestra...
While Lydon learned much from her experience at UpStairs on the Square, her training in a professional kitchen had begun the summer before. After failing to get a job at the Pudding, she got a job as a prep cook at a restaurant in Nantucket, where she and her family had spent their summers. In childhood, she had “sold them berries to finance horseback riding lessons,” and now she had the opportunity to make culinary magic with those berries...
...Nantucket and other childhood memories were indeed the source of Lydon’s interest in cooking. One of her fondest culinary recollections is of a lobster soup made from fresh lobsters caught during summers in Nantucket, and she has early memories of finding recipes “scrawled on note cards” in her family’s home. Her mother, a recreational gardener and cook, introduced Lydon to cooking’s creative side. “My mom is a wonderful forager; she can make something out of nothing,” Lydon says...
...coffee, as Bush the Elder once did. (Bush the Younger has been careful to let us know that he favors bologna sandwiches.) Furthermore, John Kerry speaks fluent French. It is no accident that a White House staffer once said, "He looks French." The Heinz Kerrys hang out on Nantucket and in Sun Valley, Idaho. They don't own a ranch or cut scrub with a chainsaw. He often shows up at Davos. He went to a fancy private school in Switzerland. He and Teresa met at a global-warming conference, for God's sake! He wears pastel Hermes ties...
...delegate to the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, she struck up a friendship with one of the other delegates, to whom her husband had once introduced her on the Senate steps--and three years later, she and John Kerry were married at her house on Nantucket...